Weekends always end up about 3 days too short. I went to "Town" with the girls on Sat and did the round of Thirfty Horse in Norco (browsing for a full quarter saddle with a flared front -no luck), Coldwater Creek (late christmas exchange- got a shawl like sweater thing that supposedly will dress up my tshirt and jeans combos a bit), the Apple store(ordered Calvins b-day gift, check out the iPad), Buzzard House (for dog food), and ended up with a trip to Cheesecake Factory (Lousiana chicken pasta) with hopes of making it home to ride... yeah right. We piled out at the ranch at 3:30 and immdeiately they immediately started in with the reasons why we couldn't possible squeeze a ride in today. The boys and Jim went ice skating at Ice Station in Santa Clarita with the Troop (243 -Littlerock), even got food on the way home so I didn't have to make dinner.
So Sunday at 1PM, we all gathered and tried to get some riding done. But alas, no joy there either, the motorcylclists had to be wrangled by 4x4 and advised of property ownership and negative appeal of motorcycles in the area. So 45 mintues later, me and Kit had warmed up, done all our HW, (She is progressing nicely on the "get your head on the circle", and follow my seat/lean in the turns. She is even beginning to sidepass against the rail.). We practiced standing and being bored for a solid 15 minutes, then she'd fuss and we'd wander around working on the power steering and focus. Got a total of about 5 good big sighs out of her, so she was relaxing).
Ended up on Fizz, another mare of Kelly's, for the last 5 minutes. She is a rescue. Such a basket case when she got her one year ago and now she's a totally different horse. She spent a last winter here adjusting to life in a pasture (living in the 24x24 attachd to it), and went to Havilah for some hill training last summer-came back a "pretend wild horse" and then figured out humans give out treats if you meet them at the gate. Today she was real bracey and kept pinning her ears like she was worried I was gonna get after her and hurt her. We just walked around the arena and did a couple of small turns (maybe 10m cirlces), backed up and were done. She has a lot of training on her, however, Kelly believes some of it wasn't the most kindly done and thats why she is so defensive. I was amazed at how light she was and once she started to trust (albeit only a little) me, she was working good. Kit was looking at me, like "hey WTH I'm your horse, ride me, why her?"
Made stuffed pumpkin for supper, Valeries famous recipe that I always beg for. It was a breeze and really good. Have plenty of leftovers for another meal and couple of lunches.
Gotta figure out how to upload pictures like ya'll do, all this writing is looking boring... mmmm
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